Rubber top



F. A. CIGOL.

RUBBER TOP.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.23. 19.16.

1 1 93,99 1 a Patented Aug. 8, 1916.

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FRANK A. CIGOL, OF LITTLE FALLS, NEW JERSEY.

RUBBER T01.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Au. 8, 1916.

Application filed March 23, 1916. Serial No. 86,186.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. Orson, a citizen of the United States, residing at Little Falls, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Tops, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has for its principal object to provide a durable and attractive toy that may be used either as a bouncing ball or a spinning top, and it consists in a hollow elastic rubber body formed preferably, though not necessarily in the shape of a ball and with one or more apertures therein, together with a spinning point member or members fitted into said aperture or apertures.

In the drawing, Figure l is a side elevation; Fig. 2, a plan; and, Fig. 3 an enlarged fragmentary view, mainly in section, of the improved toy.

a is an elastic rubber hollow sphere; the body thus provided, however, may have other forms than that of a sphere. At one or more points therein said body is pro vided with an aperture or apertures Z).

0 indicates metallic ferrules forming the spinning-point members for the toy when used as a top. Each of these (Fig. 3) has a tapered or pointed portion 0? and a reduced or neck portion 6. Preferably, also, the inner part f of the ferrule is somewhat tapered.

Each ferrule is assembled with the sphere or ball a by forcing its part f into an aperture buntil the edge of the material around said aperture enters the neck or neck portion 0 of the ferrule. In the preferred construction, the opposite faces 9 g of the neck, being a trifle closer together than the thickness of the material of the ball at the edge Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, .D. G.

of the material, grip said edge between them, while the aperture, being somewhat less in diameter than the neck, exerts constricting pressure on the latter; but this is immaterial so long as the material of the ball holds the ferrule effectively in place.

The ball is preferably eXteriorly grooved or corrugated, as at h, in planes around the axis of the spinning-point members, which, when there are two, are placed opposite each other, so that one may form a spinning point and the other a bearing point for the finger of one hand while a cord, previously wound around the ball and engaging in the grooves, is drawn upon by the other hand to start the spinning. The grooves of course may also serve to afford an effective grip on the ball by a whip in whipping the top.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 2- 1. A spinning top comprising a hollow elastic rubber body formed With an aperture therein and a spinning-point member fitted into said aperture, and extending short of a point in said body diametrically opposite said aperture.

2. A spinning top comprising a hollow elastic rubber sphere and opposite spinningpoint members secured in the wall of the sphere.

3. A spinning top comprising a hollow elastic rubber sphere and opposite spinningpoint members secured in the wall of the sphere, the sphere being grooved exteriorly in planes crossing the axis of said spin- Bing-point members.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

FRANK A. CIGOL.

Commissioner of I'atents. 

